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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Benjamin Carson

Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Book Library Reading
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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Agreement Students Stupid
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Country Education Sports
I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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Hands Party Victory
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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Dark Night Skeletons
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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Looks People Problem
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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Allowing Fear Peril
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Conservative Sense Thinking
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Neurosurgeons Way
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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Believe Political Thinking
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Boundaries Bully Pushing Resistance

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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